President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday decried the culture of waste foisted on the country due to lack of facilities for preservation of agricultural products.
He spoke while receiving the Global Chief Executive Officer of Friesland Campina, The Netherlands, Mr. Roelf Joosten, at State House, Abuja.
The President, in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, lamented a situation where cattle farmers throw away milk from their animals, because there is no means of preserving and processing the product.
“We have failed to develop our assets on a permanent basis. This, we are determined to work on,” the President said.
He urged Friesland Campina, in its collaboration with Nigeria, to educate cattle farmers that quality matters more than quantity, and help them to organize into cooperatives for better business.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe, who was also at the event, said herdsmen would soon be organized into ranches in the country, with special grasses and water, which will give better yield and make the animals healthier.